14 Tardent Street, Downer ACT 2602, Australia
This property is a standalone house located at 14 Tardent Street, Downer. It features three bedrooms, one bathroom, and sits on a 708 m² block, providing a spacious garden area. The home also includes a single parking space.
The land parcel measures 708 m², offering ample outdoor space for gardening or recreation. Inside, the house provides three bedrooms suitable for a small family or use as a home office.
The nearest Metro station is Swinden Street, about 0.9 km away, reachable on foot within a few minutes. The EPIC and Racecourse light‑rail station is also nearby, roughly 1.4 km from the property.
Residents can enjoy the Dickson District Playing Fields and Dickson Wetland, both approximately 1 km distant, for sports and nature walks. Exhibition Park and the Canberra Racecourse are also within 1 km, offering event venues and leisure activities.
The Downer shopping centre has a newly refurbished cafe and veterinary clinic, and a bronze kangaroo sculpture was unveiled there in May 2019. Cultural amenities such as the Dickson Library and the annual National Folk Festival are just over a kilometre away.
The suburb sits on calcareous shales from the Canberra Formation, which are overlain by Quaternary alluvium deposits. This geological setting reflects the historic reference to Canberra as the “Limestone Plains”.
Downer originated as a CSIRO agricultural research facility in the 1930s and was used for opium poppy cultivation during 1939‑1945. Large pine and gum trees were planted as windbreaks, many of which were later replaced with newer gum varieties.
Politically, Downer is part of the federal electorate of Canberra, represented by Alicia Payne of the Labor Party. In the ACT Legislative Assembly it falls within the Kurrajong electorate, which elects five members proportionally.
